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Son Jonathan Jones reporting Egypt
executed fifteen Islamic militants Tuesday

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they'd been convicted of carrying out

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a deadly attack on an army outpost in
the Sinai Peninsula in two thousand and

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thirteen the executions were carried out
simultaneously into prisons north of Cairo

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they are the latest mass execution
carried out in Egypt since six convicted

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jihadists were hanged in two thousand and
fifteen all fifteen militants executed on

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Tuesday were hanged

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a British woman has been convicted
in Egypt of trying to smuggle

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a banned prescription
painkiller into the country

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a court sentenced thirty three
year old Laura Plummer to

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a three year prison term Tuesday she was
arrested in October when she arrived in

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her Gotta

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a resort city along the Red Sea and customs
officers found hundreds of Tramadol

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pills in her luggage she says that they
were for her Egyptian boyfriend who suffers

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from chronic back pain Liberians voted in

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a runoff election Tuesday to choose the
West African countries next president

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former soccer star George way and Vice
President Joseph walk I are competing to

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replace President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
who is stepping down after two years two

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terms that he is that's the maximum allowed
under Liberia's Constitution walk I and

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way were the top vote getters in the October
tenth election with way getting thirty

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eight percent and by walk I coming in
second with twenty eight percent since

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neither received a majority

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a runoff election was triggered but court
challenges delayed that election which

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was originally set for November
seventh this is V.O.A. New. The U.N.

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Children's Fund is warning that two hundred
twenty thousand children in the area of

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eastern Ukraine controlled by Russian backed
rebels are at risk of being killed or

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maimed by land mines and other explosive
remnants of war correspondent Lisa shrine

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reports for V.O.A.

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From Geneva eastern Ukraine is one of the
most mind contaminated places on Earth

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well into his fourth year of war the don't
yet scandal Hans regions are riddled

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with deadly explosives that are taking

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a heavy toll on the lives and well
being of its children the U.N.

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Children's Fund estimates land mines and
other explosive weapons kill or maim one

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child a week along eastern
Ukraine contact line this is

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a five hundred kilometer strip of the
land that divides government and rebel

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controlled areas where fighting is most
intense UNICEF warns children especially

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very young children are

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a great risk of death an injury from these
lethal weapons the agency says most

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casualties occur when children pick up these
explosive devices which look like toys

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these this line for V.O.A.

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News Geneva Kremlin spokesman
suggested Tuesday that

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a call by Russian opposition leader
Alexei Navalny to boycott next year's

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presidential election may be illegal not
only urged to supporters to boycott the

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March eighteenth vote after election
officials on Monday barred him from running

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Russia's Central Election Commission voted
to ban the anticorruption blogger from

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running because of his conviction on criminal
charges not only in His followers say

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those charges were politically motivated
Dmitri Pesci office spokesman for Russian

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President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that
efforts by Novell me and his supporters

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to organize the boycott ought to be carefully
studied to see if they're breaking

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the law Putin announced earlier this month
that he will run for re-election and it

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is widely assumed he will win

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a fourth term as Russia's head of state.
Peru's ailing former President Alberto

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Fujimori on Tuesday asked the public for
forgiveness two days after receiving

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a controversial pardon from
the current president in

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a Facebook video filmed from his hospital
bed he said I am aware that the results

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of my government were well received on one
side but I admit that I have let down

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other compatriots and I ask them to forgive
me with all my heart on Sunday the

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current president granted

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a medical partan to the former
authoritarian leader who had been serving

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a twenty five year prison sentence for
human rights violations there is more on

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these and other late breaking and developing
stories from around the world around

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dot com and on the V.O.A.

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News mobile app I'm Jonathan Jones reporting
from the world headquarters of the

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Voice of America in Washington that's
the latest world news from B O A.

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This is Africa news tonight on The Voice
of America. Good evening and welcome

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welcome to Africa news tonight from the
English to Africa Service of the Voice of

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America your source for Pan-African News
and World developments I mean he's Will he

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be in Washington coming up on Africa
news tonight the book where people very

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passionate give all that that that it is
that he doesn't come from Quick work well

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people that I would like. To talk about
good look at the president but people got

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a bit warning came out to vote That's
reporter games but he is in Monrovia with

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coverage today of Liberia as the runoff
vote for president details coming up also

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with

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a move aimed to guard against potential
infiltration by the boats Uganda has increased

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its troops presence along the border with
the D R C and thousands suffer as I'm Bob

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wincey legal immigrants living in
Botswana OP depending. To return home for

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Christmas and New Years What have these
stories and lots more ahead on African list

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tonight. Our top story

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Liberians are voting today in

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a long delayed presidential runoff election
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has

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declared today

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a national holiday football agent Joerg
of the Coalition for Democratic Change is

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competing against Think company vice
president Joe that both of the ruling Unity

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Party that on and off was scheduled to
take place in early November but it was

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delayed by several legal challenges against
the first round vote held on October

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tenth one of the key concerns
raised was the in F.

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Activeness of the final regs Thracian role
it to resulted in the sharing of voter

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identification and doubled at

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a just ration the Supreme Court ordered
the Election Commission just last week to

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make specific changes including cleaning
up the voting rolls the game buddy is in

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the Liberian capital Monrovia covering the
run off election he spoke with reported

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William eagle in Washington about how
things are going so far. This morning

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around eight o'clock am local time and
it is going well I believe that's

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a commission of. Police would turn out
so far although they said that it's

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moderates they cannot bump up first round
board because usually second round

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election would not draw that many voters
they let the commission told people who

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are prior to today to be kept for how they
go into the booth compare to the first

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one where many errors were made that they
want to vote of the voter registration

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card. You probably know
this one I want to live by

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a month because the results. Campeche
Rumbaut were talented in court because of

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what the challenge of call irregularities
there was one incident said this morning

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one border according to the
election commission came to

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a vote and according to the commission
he was Each you're given two voter card

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instead of returning the other one he did
fill out the two voter card he clean that

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one poll worker getting in the car but the
poll worker denied that they gave him

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two but the Election Commission said they
have not received any major complaints so

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far so they are pleased with the way things
are going James have you been able to

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speak with any voters and what are they
saying about why they voted the way they

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did that election. Has taken place during
the holiday particularly after Christmas

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the voters here very passionate about their
respective candidates but George Weah

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or the vice president what Kyle they are
very passionate about why they want to

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vote for it to be there and to be as
it about their candidate. Maybe they

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include like income from Christmas or people
through our lives on Monday because of

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the Christmas celebration but people got
up this morning and they came out to vote

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I had

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a chance to speak with some of them some
of the voters this is some of what they

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have to say what is it the you like for
the next president to do well in this is.

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Really. A legend process
people are going to decide.

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This is just really suited for Jesus we
want to keep this country not run not be

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not the political. Not uncommon was
the process was really easy to do

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things is very easy to have
anything really of my way.

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James have the. Candidates and it's

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a large yet cast their votes today by the
block I was the first to come to catch

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a boat about. This morning we talk
with the vice president after Capitol.

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Competent about our part of or at the
question why others feel about the process

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now that he was one of the challenges
to the part election about election

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here now about the process that's what.
He what it's going to happen and this is

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what he had to say during

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a struct press interaction. That's

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going to tell George we are of the
correlation for democratic also water this

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morning. Seem to be the Bobo candidates
were what it almost together with George we

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have. A few minutes after the vice president
board or so we have to raise to just

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we are politician are he voter
as usual the crowd came

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a follow him and. He said also he's
confident he says he's confident

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that he is going to win this second round
James has there been any comments from

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international observers on the conduct of
the elections we have ever to speak to

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the African Union observer mission which
is led by the former deputy chief of the

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African Union Commission Eros
to when with a branch of

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a tree so far the way it's going he gives
credit to the electoral commission for

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being able to correct the final registration
voter registration list that was the

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main point of contention by the the Supreme
Court order the election commission to

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make sure the training of the voter
registration because as you know there were

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reports there were allegations in the
first round that people some people use

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double I.D.

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Cards to vote in the first round.
Of what education. Is much

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better now although we've been told
particularly in this place for people to come

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here and to from not find their names
but one needs to dig deeper to find out

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whether they voted last time on the web
and then Chamish But given that you're

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talking of four people and already over two
hundred and fifty of our voters that's

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not I'm not naming

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a number but one hopes that not going to
do it in the many many places across the

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country because it's always important to
make sure that each and every person that

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once voted for James and when are the results
are expected Well first of all let me

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say

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a bill that according to the election
commission on the polls will close at six pm

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today local time but according to the
election commission. Once you are before

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you will be allowed to vote even
though the polls will close. On the

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results we expect. To be
announced by Saturday but

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by some people the results come
out. This week that was reporter

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James Buddy in Monrovia Liberia he was
speaking with via ways William Eagle.

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Has increased its troops presence along the
border with the Democratic Republic of

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Congo the move aims to guard against potential
infiltration by rebels of the Allied

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Defense Forces or A.D.F. This
comes amid reports of A.D.F.

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Attacks on peacekeepers in the D.R. C.

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The Great Lakes Regional governments have
also agreed to jointly fight the rebels

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always Catherine Lumby files this report
from Kampala Uganda has been placed on

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high alert following the recent killings
of UN security personnel by the Ugandan

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rebel A.D.F.

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In the Democratic Republic of Congo the
group operates in the mountainous Uganda

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border area he talked to U.N.
Peacekeepers in eastern D.R.S.

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His North Kivu Province on December seventh
killing at least fifteen tons onion

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blue helmets five D.R.S.

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His soldiers and wounding fifty three
others now the Ugandan army Uganda people's

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defense forces have been deployed along
all the country's border with the DIA C.

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Especially in cases and wounded which are
districts they have been referred to as

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permanent troops used by the enemy can all
kill in law is again as many sort of sit

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for defense. Think you.

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Know the plans. We don't. Daughter

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over. To make sure we're on the lookout
Major General Peter is the commander of

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land forces in the U.P.D.

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If he say's they are tied to the money
tearing the activities of the A.D.F.

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And has floats they will be crushed should
they attempt to cross to Uganda be how

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will. We. Not yet they also have

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a duality for me Tell us. What
I mean. So that they are.

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Watching them we know what they're really
every day we have and I order them and

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the moment that them to come into our
country she when you deal with them we have

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a dent with them they are not in what he
said it was because they were defeated yet

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if they come back again we shall deal
with them he says at the moment Ugandan

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troops can only guard against edia
Fribbles at the border since they have no

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authorization to hunt them down India resi
Unfortunately we cannot cause the boat

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up because of the National.
We can only do that. Even as

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a quiet and I think we are working together
with. The sheeple to make sure that we

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deal with this threat because if it is

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a killing civilians so yes and the you see
the suffering this is also suffering for

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Ugandans and or D.C.

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Where human beings who. Saw
for. Whatever happens it

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will get the Irish had got to meet it
is your gun does spokesperson he ses

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countries in the Great Lakes region have
embarked on joint efforts to completely

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flush the rebel out feet of the area
one of the mechanisms in place for

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a mechanism that brings together the
parties such as your grand Kenya Tanzania

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and Democratic Republic of
Congo where established. In

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a consistent. Gathering in two. And
having an impressive mechanism under

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which this information can be
shared containing. The Joint

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Intelligence Center has also created

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a subcommittee to conduct counter
radicalization exercises in Uganda since the

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A.T.F.

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Mainly recruit from
Uganda youths or. Treat

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.

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You to induce people to join in.

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And solve we did to
them by way of exposing

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the devices of the enemy in the one
nine hundred ninety S. The A.T.F.

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Riposte terrorized Uganda the region in
the district of cassis When do we go on

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color for almost ten years during the
insurgency they are believed to have killed

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more than three thousand people and
displaced one hundred thousand These were

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however repulsed and they
relocated to the dear A C.

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The rebel group is estimated to have between
seven and rid to nine hundred fighters

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reports indicate that they are still very
active in the DIA resi and pose and in

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a MUST through it to the area this
is Catherine Lumby for V.O.A.

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News In com Paula. You were

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listening to African news tonight live
on the following frequencies fifty five

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eighty and sixty eighty kilometers down
the Voice of America. In Washington.

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Twenty past the hour here's

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a recap of our top stories
Liberians are voting today in

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a long delayed presidential
runoff election. Would

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a move aim to guard against potential
infiltration by levels Uganda has increased

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its troop presence along the border
with the D R C And for more news and

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information visit our website at V.O.A.

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Africa dot com.

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Thousands of Zimbabwe and illegal immigrants
are living in Botswana preparing to

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return home for Christmas and New Year's
but there is one stumbling block the

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police who have logged

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a crackdown on those without travel documents
report out of MARTIN And when you has

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more from God on. It's possible it's all
for smuggling immigrants live the bus in

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the pot on

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a cuppa tell how one not all on board will
make it across the board on the ports on

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the police have started landing up illegal
immigrants the much only ones who fled

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the country economy cut chips then what's
least survive on menial jobs and how

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would any That includes
having to do with me

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a guy innings from peace jobs which
include casual rake such as gardening and

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laundry after putting together

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a savings they prepared to travel home to
join their loved ones over the Christmas

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holidays by their troop big home it usually
ends at the hands of the police who

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moaned roadblocks along highways as much
window Mr Quick and how we're going to

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miss Angeline layout says this is the most
difficult time of the year is the police

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at eight illegal immigrants.
Tafel on their way. To my house

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because that's important they take you
and your. Prefers to travel any time

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during the year when they'll be little
police presence another Zimbabwean who stays

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in Hebron he didn't die also on days with
that travelling at this time of the year

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is a nightmare for illegal immigrants it's

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a difficult time of the police
or of dream to patrol some drugs

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so we get to address that specially if
you don't have papers trust in place. So

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they call me it's really telling on average
but one at the ports nearly thirty

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thousand illegals must win
immigrants every year at

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a cost of one million or United States one
hundred thousand dollars how involved

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most immediate you find their way back into
the neighboring country with jobs hard

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to come by in their homeland
those who have a state pay

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a fine of not more than one thousand or
US hundred dollars others including men

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under the age of fourteen I took into custody
out of court and last on the big bags

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reporting for us. English to Africa Service
this is my team in Hebron Botswana.

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Scientific researchers say one of Africa's
most mysterious and elusive creatures

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could be on the brink of extinction because
of hotter and drier conditions caused

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by climate change the animal physiology
experts from Wits University in

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Johannesburg have been studying the Aardvarks
in South Africa's added Kalahari the

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gin near boats one and bia scientists
monitoring the medium sized borrowing

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mammal So the weather have far more
dramatic effects on the out of the Vox than

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they expected that and Taylor
reports in the first part of

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a series focusing on endangered wide
life in Africa. Professor Andrea photo

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uses her knowledge of animals bodily
functions to understand how they're able to

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adjust to the higher temperatures
expected in Southern Africa in the future

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a large mammals contrary mood because
of things like train service and human

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habitation so they really are going to
have to stay with it all and they going to

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have to adapt to the changed environment
they also can't adapt genetically because

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the rate of climate change is so fast and
because they breed very slowly so really

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all that's left for them is to d'etre the
physiology for changes in behavior in

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this context she and

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a team of scientists chose to study in
nocturnal animal that little is known about

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the strange and unique odd Voc many
people describe it as having the snout of

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a pig and the tail of a
kangaroo and the ears of

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a rabbit's it's actually most closely
related to the elephants which is not

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something you'd expect
ot fall comes from off

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a Collins words meaning earth and pake using
powerful sharp shovel shaped claws the

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pinkish hairy fixed skinned odd Voc is
able to dig in very hard ground with its

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long sticky tongue it can eat up to fifty
thousand insects especially unsent

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termites every night in the Kalahari the
research is tranquilized some are Vox with

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darts they implanted microchips in them
to track their movements and record their

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temperatures the area was even hotter and
drier than usual with Southern Africa

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experiencing an intense drought but happened
during this drought is because there

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was no rain and because it was so hot
that reduced the amount of cross and the

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amount of termites and soon the environment
they became not available to the old

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clock and so they are hot once able to get
sufficient food energy for learned or

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colleagues or the yard Voxer lose

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a lot of weight later after retrieving
the. Microchips data told him how the

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creatures body temperatures
had plummeted during

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a cold not an animal can prevent his body
temperature from falling but producing

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metabolic heat and in order to produce
that metabolic each You need to have food

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energy and so we saw that as the drought
went on the art folks body temperatures

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progressively dropped until they reached
about twenty five to be sound which is

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incredibly low body temperature and then
those animals are treated badly will

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subsequently died the scientist says before
such heat and lack of moisture people

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hardly ever saw it vox but now
environmental change is sparking desperate

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behavioral change among the animals and
they are more sightings of them coming out

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in the morning because they so energy
efficient that they try to use the sun to

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increase their body
temperature and prevent

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a programming so low that they bodily
functions stop working for fear as they're

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transforming weather could in directly cause
the yard Vox extinction in large parts

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of southern Africa by two thousand and
fifty she says the creatures constantly

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migrate to cooler where to areas as
soon as those animals try to move they

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encounter a chance even if they bear
and the fans and then encounters

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a road that encounters
a mine that encounters

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a city full of says the odd Vox absence
is potentially catastrophic for other

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animals that rely on its Barros it's really
the only animal that can dig in many

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environments and so it's the animal that
digs the barrows and many other species

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uses well in order to take refuge from
things like eat some from princes those

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animals are going to be threatened waterlogs
Betty and foxes African wild cats

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ground squirrel scrub his birds snakes
lizards that all use the study shows that

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the negative consequences of climate change
on African wildlife could strike sooner

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of any initial the fort we could start
seeing affects you know within the next ten

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years and so. Two thousand one
hundred we'd expect to see probably

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a lot of mammals already in big trouble
for learned. To study other animals that

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eat and turned on its white penguins and
augury she determined how Bear affected by

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rising temperatures I'm Taryn Taylor
for viewing news in Johannesburg.

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And that wraps up that this edition for
Africa news tonight I mean he's in

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00:28:07
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sports right here on The Voice of America.

00:30:40
And. The Confederation

00:30:47
of African Football caf will hold its
annual awards ceremony on January fourth in

00:30:54
a crock Gonna the big prize to be handed
out and done as capital is the African

00:31:00
player of the Year award for twenty seventeen
the three finalists are Mohamed Sala

00:31:07
of Egypt and Liverpool Pierre Emerick
Obama yang of go bone and brew should

00:31:12
Dortmund and Sabio Monday of Senegal
and Liverpool Manet and Obama

00:31:19
Yang who won the award in two thousand
and fifteen were also finalists for the

00:31:24
twenty six team trophy in this Sunnyside

00:31:29
a sports end of year highlight Let's
go back to January fifth when an

00:31:35
Algerian football player
was in the spotlight in

00:31:39
a blue Nigeria and the highlight
package begins with some sporty.

00:31:47
Let's give us sunny side of sports salute
to. About Gerry and Leicester City

00:31:54
who was named the Confederation of African
football player of the year for twenty

00:31:59
sixteen at San you all awards
ceremony Nigeria reporter

00:32:06
Samson Oh my lady tells us
more from. I don't know.

00:32:13
Of the twenty fifth African
player of the Year Award is.

00:32:21
This. Marvelous Riyad Maurice pulled

00:32:26
a total of three hundred and sixty one
votes to beat two thousand and fifteen caf

00:32:30
African play of the year we know America
the Bamiyan who had three hundred and

00:32:36
thirteen votes and saddle many who came
third with one hundred and eighty six votes

00:32:41
Riyad Maurice attributed his success
to his teammates his hold. On very

00:32:48
happy and very please don't think. All my
chin mates from Leicester from Algeria

00:32:55
my manager as. President
of the. And. I want to

00:33:02
dedicate to my family. And.
Africa and of course her

00:33:08
journals well. All the people
who every day. Africa don't

00:33:15
thank you in two thousand and sixteen
alone Maurice won the P.F.A.

00:33:19
Players player of the year
as well as the P.F.A.

00:33:21
Finance player of the yes
I'm also won the B.B.C.

00:33:24
African football of the Year award I'm
the club of the year twenty sixteen

00:33:30
is motherlode the Sundown member does
Sundowns of South Africa went home with the

00:33:37
African club of the Year award why Coach
beat so must many was named African coach

00:33:42
of the yet Denis or young goal of Uganda.
Goalkeeper was awarded the African play

00:33:48
of the year beast in Africa although. From
the two thousand and sixteen blue cuff

00:33:52
awards include disappear for consul that
Geria won the women National Team of the

00:33:57
yeah why the Greens of Uganda was named
the national team of the year and

00:34:01
a twenty sixteen

00:34:02
a most promising talent award
goes to. Show and The twenty

00:34:09
six did use Player of the year.

00:34:17
Ten's in your music diamond plotting numbers
and after Beat master offend you could

00:34:21
do well in hand to entertain guest with
three Lim performances which included those

00:34:26
coming from I will meet and you
meet all Nigerian music stars.

00:34:34
And. Get that. Right at the.

00:34:41
End of the I am some scene in

00:34:44
a butcher Nigeria Thanks Samson
let's give another sunny side

00:34:49
a sports salute to

00:34:51
a Schola of Nigeria who was named the
twenty sixteen African female player of the

00:34:57
year in a. This is

00:34:59
a little be nice if you
believe that you can see us.

00:35:07
In the E.U. . The E.U.

00:35:11
. Will believe that it
was the it was the I.

00:35:19
Believe this is the engine. I
think. We just have to move

00:35:26
the way he clearly believes the
way this is the second time

00:35:33
a show law has been awarded calf's female
player of the Year prize to show LHO was

00:35:39
the top scorer at the twenty sixteen Africa
women's Cup of Nations tournament and

00:35:44
Cameron where she found the net six times
and the Super Falcons of Nigeria were

00:35:51
crowned African champions for

00:35:53
a record extending tenth time however
there was controversy soon after the

00:35:59
Nigerian ladies lifted the trophy in
Cameroon. Members of the Super Falcons

00:36:06
protested outside parliament in

00:36:08
a budget over unpaid bonuses I think

00:36:13
a shoal is probably hinting at that protest
when she says the treatment of female

00:36:20
footballers in Africa is in her
words nothing to write home about.

00:36:26
Sampson No Molly returns with more African
football news now and Sampson says he'll

00:36:33
be kicking off with gun names and club
football Good evening Sam So good evening to

00:36:39
you Sunny we begin in Ghana where hearts
of oak were crowned champions of the Ghana

00:36:45
at sixty Cup March after playing out a
pulsating nil nil draw with command

00:36:51
a frantic article about by our stadium
on Sunday there in book club beat to the

00:36:56
trophy after winning the two legged contest
three Warne an aggregate of one the

00:37:01
first leg an across three one and made
work easier by defending to two goal

00:37:06
advantage income R.C.

00:37:08
From one Champions Cup to another for the
third time around in Abu Dabi will play

00:37:14
host to the Gyptian supercop generated
twelve dysthymia between domestic double

00:37:19
champions and Holly S.E.

00:37:22
Cupp runners up there has

00:37:24
a been stadium the two new
fifteen Super Cup was hosted at

00:37:28
a sim stadium when Holly beat rivals Zamalek
three to morrow Allegiant was punished

00:37:34
born Brahim day as has rejected an offer
to join the utmost lies of Morrocco ahead

00:37:39
of the twenty eight in
World Cup the Moloch

00:37:42
a born young star is hoping to play for
La Raja despise several assurances from

00:37:47
having related to the moral can coach to
include him in the more records walk of

00:37:51
sport that is set to face Spain Portugal
and Iran sources claim that Morricone said

00:37:57
to accept Daz allegiance in case he fails
to progress with Spain even though he

00:38:03
remains confident to achieve his ambitions
the eighteen year old has made he senior

00:38:08
debut with much to see the last Tuesday
against Leicester City in the E.F.L.

00:38:13
Cup and previous leave Egypt for the Blues
in the Champions League clash against

00:38:17
started on

00:38:18
a scale and out all the sport's Kenya will
be represented by one hundred and thirty

00:38:23
two outlets and fifty seven

00:38:25
a few. A good cause come what games
planned for April fourth to the fifteen

00:38:30
thousand Australian sheep shown by

00:38:33
a kukri disk use that for peace
recent series of meetings with

00:38:37
a club games organizes Kenya only benefited
with four additional slots don't be

00:38:43
shared by boxing sweet mean shooting

00:38:46
a pilot because really I am subsumed
when I live in the bush and I jam Yeah.

00:38:56
I'm Coffee Party defender for D.C.

00:38:58
United You're listening to the sunny
side of sports on the Voice of America.

00:39:19
Basketball news now on the V.O.A.

00:39:22
You might say the National
Basketball Association gave

00:39:26
a few presents to its fans on Christmas
Day five games with the marquee

00:39:33
match up in Oakland California that's
where the defending champion Golden State

00:39:38
Warriors defeated the visiting Cleveland
Cavaliers ninety nine to ninety two in

00:39:44
a rematch of the twenty seven team and be

00:39:47
a finals Kevin Durant's led the Warriors
with twenty five points while another

00:39:53
Kevin Kevin Love had

00:39:56
a big game for the Cavaliers scoring
thirty one points and grabbing eighteen

00:40:01
rebounds both game high totals Le Bron
James had twenty points for Cleveland

00:40:08
but he missed eleven of the eighteen shots
he took and he also had seven turnovers

00:40:15
Le Bron spoke with reporters afterwards
about the game Owens good guy both teams

00:40:22
going off on time and they had

00:40:24
a lot of transition point the kid got blown
into. This isn't the basis so to sign

00:40:29
it again for us in the last I was like
you know I was in the look at the office

00:40:33
remark by Bill and kick out the clay
factory you know but then I kicked

00:40:37
a bus in transition twice in the final
two minutes Le Bron James tried to drive

00:40:43
past Kevin Durant each time with

00:40:46
a chance to narrow the gap to one point
but Le Bron lost the ball out of bounds

00:40:52
both times replays showed that Duran could
have been called for fouls on both plays

00:40:59
but Le Bron took issue only with the
second one a loss in the play it got me

00:41:05
a little bit but I lost that one but the
one right obviously don't get someone on

00:41:10
twice. What I would be under both
in other Christmas Day N.B.A.

00:41:17
Games my favorite N.B.A.

00:41:19
Team the Washington Wizards pulled out there
was and played perhaps their best game

00:41:26
of the season beating the host Boston
Celtics one eleven to one of three Bradley

00:41:33
Beal scored twenty five points for the
Wizards while his back court partner John

00:41:38
Wall added twenty one points and fourteen
assists at Madison Square Garden in

00:41:45
New York the Philadelphia
seventy six ers snapped

00:41:48
a five game losing streak beating the New
York Knicks one zero five to ninety eight

00:41:54
young Cameroonian star Joe Well M.B.D.

00:41:58
Who has been dealing with back problems had
twenty five points and sixteen rebounds

00:42:03
for Philadelphia and be battled with New
York's Turkish big man Enos can't enter

00:42:11
who had a season high
thirty one points and tied

00:42:14
a career best with twenty two rebounds
anus Cantor also joined some pretty

00:42:21
select Christmas Day game company with his
performance. He joined Wilt Chamberlain

00:42:28
Bill Russell and Bob Lanier all members of
the Basketball Hall of Fame as the only

00:42:35
players with

00:42:36
a thirty point twenty rebound game on
Christmas according to research provided to

00:42:42
the Knicks by the L.-I a Sports Bureau.
In two more Christmas Day N.B.A.

00:42:48
Results the Oklahoma City Thunder defeat
lose the visiting Houston Rockets one

00:42:54
twelve to one zero seven and the Minnesota
Timberwolves top the Los Angeles Lakers

00:43:00
won twenty one two one zero four I'm Sonny
young and you're listening to the sunny

00:43:07
side of sports on the Voice of America
just ahead Al chat with sports

00:43:14
reporter Dan free day so
please keep on the sunny side.

00:43:55
This is your memory I'm from Africa Manayunk
you know thousands of children every

00:44:02
day don't let your child be warm on their
magic sure this leap on the entry into

00:44:07
the most rudimentary hitting mom is like
winning her basket ball you need to get to

00:44:13
the net. You need to

00:44:20
get to the net thanks to Cambay I mention
big man Wilt Chamberlain Bill Russell and

00:44:26
Bob Lanier all being members of the
Basketball Hall of Fame Well the Congolese

00:44:32
giant to Kemba Tombo was enshrined in
the Basketball Hall of Fame in twenty

00:44:38
fifteen joining us once again on the
show is sports reporter Dan free Del

00:44:45
sporty. Seasonal greetings then hey sunny
nice to speak with you again looking

00:44:51
forward to turning the calendar over to
twenty eighteen sometime soon yet we are

00:44:57
rapidly approaching twenty
eighteen Dan let's look back

00:45:01
a little bit the Christmas
Day In fact the N.B.A.

00:45:07
Kind of celebrating itself with five big
games and one of those games I was talking

00:45:12
Hall of Famers Dan I think
we're going to see probably

00:45:16
a few players from that Cleveland Golden
State game one day enter the Basketball

00:45:22
Hall of Fame but let's begin with that
game Dan what did you think of Golden

00:45:27
State's victory over Cleveland. Well
I know that we talked earlier I was

00:45:34
talking with Andrew right before
Christmas we previewed the game

00:45:38
a little bit I think that was before we
knew that stuff Curry was going to be out

00:45:43
for the for the Warriors
but it seemed like it was

00:45:47
a little more of the same as far as the
Cleveland Golden State match up that we've

00:45:53
gotten used to seeing in the N.B.A.

00:45:55
Finals the last three
years. Golden State is

00:46:00
a really efficient team with their
shooting and I think that people tend to

00:46:05
under-rate how good their defense is now
I think part of the reason the Golden

00:46:10
State Defense is as good as it is is because
the off fans is so efficient and it

00:46:15
really wears out the opposing team but the
Cavs seem to have trouble finding good

00:46:20
shots against the Warriors and you know if
the Cavs are going to win this game they

00:46:25
had to think that they had

00:46:26
a good shot with stuff Curry being on the
bench but didn't work out that way I know

00:46:31
there were

00:46:31
a couple stretches in the game where the
Cavs really had trouble finding any any

00:46:35
shots to go through the hoop in the second
quarter in particular I think they had

00:46:39
a really cold stretch like one making one
basket out of twelve and again in the

00:46:43
fourth quarter that were promised talking
about. In the sound bite that you played

00:46:47
earlier so you know those
are the differences

00:46:50
a few points between these teams it's not

00:46:52
a huge difference and maybe things will
change for the Cavs when Isaiah Thomas

00:46:56
returns we'll see how that goes in the
second half of the season Dan you talk about

00:47:01
that under rated Golden State Defense
and Duran being linked with perhaps

00:47:08
being the N.B.A.

00:47:09
Defensive player of the year. For this
season what did you what do you think of his

00:47:16
defensive abilities I think that's that's

00:47:19
a clear advantage that the Warriors have I
mean think of all these big guys in the

00:47:25
history of the N.B.A.

00:47:27
People like Wilt Chamberlain and. Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar and we just heard from the

00:47:31
Kemba Tombo about mosquito nets and those
guys are just known as RIM protectors

00:47:38
who stayed in the paint and and kept the
high flying guards from getting to the

00:47:43
basket but here you have

00:47:44
a guy like Kevin Durant's who generally
plays outside because of his extremely long

00:47:50
range shooting ability but if he needs to
I mean after all he's seven feet tall and

00:47:54
he has this amazing wingspan he is truly

00:47:58
a freak of nature he talk about yon
Asunta composed from the the Milwaukee

00:48:04
Bucks similar kind of player that these
guys have the ability to block shots or

00:48:09
slick Macumba but they can also stand on
the side of the drain three points it's

00:48:14
really like having another defensive force
and it just kind of comes out of nowhere

00:48:21
you're not really expecting it because
he's not the kind of guy like a Joe L.

00:48:25
Embiid who's down beneath the basket all
the time. Sonny young and you're listening

00:48:30
to the sunny side of sports on the Voice
of America chatting with sports reporter

00:48:35
Deanne Fredo Dan you mentioned
Joe Well when he had

00:48:39
a big game on Christmas Day twenty five
points sixteen rebounds we have talked

00:48:45
about how the N.B.A.

00:48:46
Becoming more international in recent years
and sure enough beat goes up against

00:48:52
the big man from Turkey Enos Kantner What
do you think of this seventy six ers next

00:48:58
game Dan was good to see
of a seventy six ers get

00:49:01
a win we talked about the seventy six
ers not too long ago when the N.B.A.

00:49:06
Season was really just

00:49:08
a few weeks old now we're heading toward
almost the halfway point most of the teams

00:49:13
are seven or eight games away from
being halfway through the season and

00:49:18
unfortunately the seventy six
ers has gone in a little bit of

00:49:21
a tailspin and they've only won two out
of their last ten games and that's

00:49:25
including last night's win over the next
so the seventy six ers. Well they have

00:49:30
some bright spots. And Ben Simmons and
some of their young players who they were

00:49:36
able to acquire through making trades and
having high draft picks they're there

00:49:42
maybe showing their true selves lately so
heading into twenty eighteen move this

00:49:47
seventy six ers are going to have to make
another push if they're going to make the

00:49:50
playoffs in the Eastern Conference but
good start last night at the against the

00:49:54
next for sure Dan I receive kind of

00:49:57
a late birthday Christmas present
with my wizards waiting in Boston

00:50:03
a result I certainly wasn't expecting based
on the recent play of the Wizards but

00:50:09
they beat the Celtics won eleven to one
hundred three maybe this indicates the

00:50:14
Wizards might turn things around

00:50:16
a little bit in twenty eight days I certainly
think for the for the Washington fans

00:50:22
it'll be nice to have

00:50:24
a competitive team over at the the newly
named Capital One the arena both in in

00:50:31
hockey and in basketball as we head in
the twenty eight team and. You know the

00:50:36
Wizards are

00:50:37
a team that is fun to watch but just
sometimes they are so maddening they got

00:50:43
a lot of criticism for

00:50:45
a really shoddy performance against the
downtrodden and that's recently and here

00:50:51
they go playing against one of the teams
in the Eastern Conference that looks like

00:50:54
it's a contender to at least make it to
the conference finals and they look like

00:50:59
a stronger team overall they're able to
recover from John Wall struggling early in

00:51:04
the game but then you have

00:51:06
a guy like Bradley Beal who I think is one
of the most well rounded players in the

00:51:09
N.B.A. You know he's the guy who can
drive to the basket you can play

00:51:12
a little defense and he's known for his
outside shot and wizards were able to put

00:51:18
it together against

00:51:19
a strong Celtics team and I think
surprised some of the the national N.B.A.

00:51:24
Fans who were watching. The Christmas
Day Eve who maybe. Haven't had

00:51:29
a chance to see the Wizards
that much this year one other

00:51:33
a Christmas Day game day and featuring
some of the league's biggest stars the

00:51:39
Oklahoma City Thunder defeated the visiting
Houston Rockets one twelve the one zero

00:51:44
seven rockets have been playing some
excellent basketball but may be slipping

00:51:49
a little bit lately but what about the
thunder Dan how do you see their chances

00:51:54
right now well you know Chris Paul missed
the game last night and I saw something

00:51:59
that said when Chris Paul and James Harden
have been on the court together while

00:52:03
they might not be their most efficient
selves overall the rockets have

00:52:08
a sixteen and one record something like
that when the both players have been active

00:52:12
and Chris Paul wasn't playing last night
so I think that had something to do with

00:52:16
it but you know you see a guy like Carmelo
Anthony he's had a great career as

00:52:21
a score he comes over to the Oklahoma
City Thunder in the off season in

00:52:26
a trade they also have Paul George who had
an outstanding career with the Indiana

00:52:31
Pacers and they're trying to mesh with

00:52:33
a player like Russell Westbrook who we
talked about so many times during the last

00:52:37
season when he was on his quest to break
the N.B.A.'s record for the most triple

00:52:42
doubles in

00:52:42
a season it's going to take some to say
it's going to take some time for three all

00:52:48
star players who are used to being the
number one player on their teams to gel and

00:52:52
it finally looks like they're figuring
things out I mean after all Russell

00:52:56
Westbrook had to get

00:52:57
a triple double had to get over ten assists
almost every night and now he's able to

00:53:02
pass the ball to some legitimate scorers
on the thunder I think that this team has

00:53:07
a really strong upside as these star
players start to figure out how to play

00:53:11
together

00:53:12
a little bit better and that was in evidence
last night in the five point win over

00:53:16
Houston really looking for
Oklahoma City to make

00:53:20
a run in the second half of the season
finally Dan we've got about thirty or forty

00:53:25
seconds left in the show James Harden
of the rockets leads the N.B.A.

00:53:30
In scoring second in assists do you think
he's the favorite right now for league

00:53:36
Most Valuable Player. Well you certainly
have to put him up there I mean you can't

00:53:41
forget about Le Bron who every year I think
he was quoted recently saying he's he's

00:53:46
better than ever before he's getting
better every single season and you just

00:53:50
mentioned Kevin Durant's who
could be in the hunt for M.V.P.

00:53:53
And defensive player of the year certainly
some of these teams that we haven't seen

00:53:59
in the top of the standings in
recent years if they go on to have

00:54:03
a big push you have to think about some of
those players I mean look at the Toronto

00:54:07
Raptors people haven't been talking about
Toronto they won nine of their last ten

00:54:11
games they're in first place and division
now ahead of four and in the Eastern

00:54:16
Conference you know see a lot of

00:54:19
a lot of interesting players I think rising
to the top in the second half it should

00:54:22
be exciting to have Tom M.P.P.

00:54:25
Right Dan free Del Dan We look forward to
more analysis later this week thank you

00:54:30
D.M.

00:54:31
You're welcome Tony And that wraps up the
December twenty sixth edition of the sunny

00:54:35
side of sports thanks to Voice of America
producer Bill work injure Thanks also to

00:54:41
V.O.A. Engineer Peter Han late and
thank you for tuning in on V.O.A.

00:54:45
Sonny Young in Washington and
that's the sunny side of sports.

00:54:56
Next an editorial reflecting the views of
the United States government since one

00:55:01
thousand nine hundred eighty seven the
Lord's Resistance Army terrorist group under

00:55:04
the leadership of self-styled
prophet Joseph Koni has waged

00:55:08
a guerrilla war against the Ugandan
government the group's purported goal is to

00:55:13
establish

00:55:14
a multi-party democracy that would rule the
country according to the Ten Commandments

00:55:20
according to UNICEF the L R A has abducted
more than twenty thousand children to

00:55:25
use as soldiers servants or sex slaves
its activities in the Central African

00:55:30
Republic South Sudan Sudan and the
Democratic Republic of Congo have helped to

00:55:35
destabilize the region and contribute. To
the violence that has displaced over two

00:55:40
point five million people
for that reason the U.S.

00:55:44
Treasury Department impose sanctions on
Joseph Coney and the Lord's Resistance Army

00:55:49
in March two thousand and sixteen the
group finances itself in part to elephant

00:55:54
poaching and ivory trafficking to destruct
their revenue stream the United States

00:55:59
Treasury Department has imposed economic
sanctions on two individuals who use the

00:56:05
illegal ivory trade in support of the Lord's
Resistance Army pursuant to executive

00:56:11
order one three six six seven executive
order one three six six seven targets those

00:56:16
persons who contribute to the conflict in
the Central African Republic all caught

00:56:21
look why is the L R A's intelligence officer
he oversees supply logistics and has

00:56:28
coercive illions to provide him with
information on government forces within the

00:56:32
region look Wang is in charge of selling
or trading the groups hoards of Ivory.

00:56:39
Tare

00:56:39
a merchant by profession has traded with
the L R A's and at least two thousand and

00:56:44
thirteen supplying the group with ammunition
mines weapons food and other supplies

00:56:50
Hatari buys regularly from the L R A has
sold or traded ivory from the L R A and

00:56:55
has promised to trade anything the L R A
once for ivory Treasury will continue to

00:57:01
target armed groups such as The Lord's
Resistance Army and their support networks

00:57:06
that rely on the global ivory trade and
wildlife trafficking to finance their

00:57:11
violent campaigns said OFAC director
Johnny Smith the US government will not

00:57:17
tolerate the actions of those who finance
destabilizing activities in Central

00:57:22
Africa and we appreciate the cooperation
of the governments of Sudan and Uganda to

00:57:27
degrade the threat posed by the L R A.
But was an editorial reflecting the

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